Radeon RX 6700 XT vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which comes with a core clock speed of 1382 MHz and a HBM2 memory frequency of 1890 MHz. It also features a 2048-bit memory bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 4096 SPUs, 256 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		230 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (30%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is 26% faster than the Radeon RX 6700 XT overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6700 XT		393216 MB/sec
	Difference: 102236 (26%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT will be a little bit (approximately 5%) better at AF than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		371360 Mtexels/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 17568 (5%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6700 XT is a lot (about 68%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 6700 XT		148544 Mpixels/sec
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 60096 (68%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.